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My Friend Lane Van Howd

In the summer of 1980, my father lost his role as a Seventh-Day Adventist minister and our family moved out of the church and to Auburn, CA, 45-minutes drive north of Sacramento, where dad set up his own non-denominational evangelical … Continue reading

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Dinner With My Best Friend From High School

Shannon shows up at 8:20 pm, twenty minutes late. I met him in the fall of 1982. We lived a mile from each other, a mile outside of Auburn, CA. I used to get rides to school with him. Shannon … Continue reading

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The Crisis

I sat around tonight with a friend and did writing exercises. Here’s mine: Was there an unexpected event that forced you into a crisis? In February of 1988, I woke up one morning to the biggest crisis of my life. … Continue reading

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Chariots Of Fire

At 4:17 pm today, I got an urge to listen to Vangelis while I worked. I clicked on to Chariots of Fire. Suddenly I was back running up the Howell Mountain Road at Pacific Union College (PUC) in the Napa … Continue reading

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